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[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] looking at some of our live events today across the seas about network, and about half an hour, leon panetta will take part in a joint briefing with his south korean counterpart. You can see that starting at 10 03 eastern here on cspan. At 10 50, we will show you a forum on legal issues from the u. S. Chamber of commerce. The speakers include several attorneys general and Rudy Giuliani and that is on cspan 2. At 2 20 eastern, paul ryan will be in cleveland speaking to ohio voters. W...

Have been rescued. our tim gaughn is on our national desk. what do we know? >> reporter: conflicting reports about how many people were on board. miraculously the people were alive when they were taken from the water. we are trying to get a read on what their condition is. they were alive when taken from the water. witnesses heard the engine of this plane stalling out and the pilot attempting to restart the engine several times. he took it down in the water, lifeguards immediately responded. this is a hundred yards off the coast there in cape cod. two people were on board at last check and bot...

Anything on the anonymous caller. the state capitol in austin, texas reopened after an anonymous caller called in a bomb threat. jon: thank you, tim on the national assignment desk. jamie: and also happening now in the top box shocking new details are emerging in the russia spy case. we are learning now there are coded messages to moscow, possible links to the kgb, even a confession. we'll have a live report. jon: in the middle box according to the government's highest estimates the bp disaster is officially now the largest accidental oil spill ever. you're going to see it from the sky. we are...

The city as well as the fire department, they've not been able to get somebody on the phone with us, but right now we do have three dead. no word on the cause yet. on a normal day, i don't know if that's the right day, but we do get aerials from this part of the country, and we were talking to san francisco, they were not going to be putting their chopper up, there is a very, very low cloud ceiling. we don't know if that has anything to do with the cause of this plane crash. there was one report of having problems during takeoff. we're in very close with ktvu in oakland. stay close, we'll get ...

Alto, california. a small twin-engine plane apparently went down in the middle of a neighborhood. assignment manager tim gaughn has the latest. >> reporter: hey, jon. i want to give you a sense of what we're looking at. got a live scene of the street where this plane went down. over here we're watching fox in oakland/san francisco market, i'm getting a lot of good information from them. they're currently on the phone with the faa, we're going to monitor that call and give you headlines from that. as you said, it was a plane with three people onboard that have died, it's in east palo alto. now,...